Improvement in holders for lamp-shades



c; H. REICHMANN.

Lamp- Shade.

Patented Sept. 30.1862.

Invenior:

N. PETERS. Phommm n hu, Washington D.C

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES H. REIOHMANN, on NEW YORK, N. Y.

IMPROVEMENT IN HOLDERS FOR LAMP-SHADES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 36,574, dated September 30, 1862.

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES H. REIGH- MANN, of the city and'State of New York, have invented, made, and applied to use a certain new and useful lmprovement in Holders for LampShades; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of my said invention, reference beinghad to the annexed drawings, making part of this specification, wherein--- b Figure 1 is a section of part of a lamp-shade with my holder applied thereto. Fig. 2 is a plan of the said holder. Fig. 3 is an elevation of one of the springs separate. Fig. 4 is a portion of the holder at the point where one of the springs is to be attached, and Fig. 5 is a section in larger size of the spring and holder at the point of attachment.

Similar marks of reference denote the sameparts.

Several holders have heretofore been made in which a metal ring is attached to the upper or smallerend of a paper shade, and then from or plain in any usual manner.

I) is a ring of sheet metal, that may be cut out of a flat piece and embossed with or formed in any desired ornamental shape, and the ring is to be given a conical or curved form by any usual means, so as to conform to the shape required.

1 1 are arms projecting from the ring b,wi th points 2 2, that may be employed for connecting the shade to theholder by forcing the said points through the paper shade and turning them up or clinching them.

To attach the springs c to the ring b, I perforate the springs with two narrow mortises, as at 8 3, Fig. 3, and I make an H-shaped incision in the ring I) at each point where there is to be a spring attached and turn up the two lips, as at 4 4, Fig. 4, and enter them through the mortises 3 3 and clinch them, as seen in Figs. 1 and 5. This attachment dispenses with rivets and makes a much neater fastening, and one that does not allow the spring to turn aside in the least, as might be the case With a rivet, and there is not any opening left through the spring to interfere with the ornamental appearance, and by a slight depression in the spring, as at 5, the exterior ornamental appearance is increased.

I do not claim attaching the shade to the holder by means of strips of metal, as set forth in Letters Patent granted February 4,1862, to G. Wedekind, assignee of Christian Reichmann.

What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The lips 4 4 and slots 3 3, formed as specified, and employed for connecting the springs c to the ring I), in the manner and for the purposes set forth. r

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my signature this 5th day of March, 1862.

CHAS. H. REICHMANN.

Witnesses:

LEMUEL W. SERRELL, JOHN F. GRAY. 

